I have no option but to spin home and grab stuff to pawn1 or sell. It's after four when I reach the house, willing it to be empty. Empty. Like: yeah, right. Lally's rental2 car is out front. I enter like a ghost through the kitchen screen. At first everything's quiet inside. Then there's a knock at the front door. An air-dam of perfume collapses3 into the hall. I freeze.
'Shhh, Vernon, I'll get the front door.' Mom scuttles4 over the rug like a hamster.
'Do-ris?' the kitchen screen opens behind me. Leona wafts5 in, flouncing her hair.
'Shhh - Lally's sleeping!' hisses6 Mom.
Get that. When my daddy used to doze7 on the sofa after a few beers, she'd put on high heels and clomp around the kitchen, just to wake him up. I swear to God. She'd pretend to be doing stuff that required clomping, but she wasn't actually doing anything at all. She'd clomp back and forth8 for no reason, instead of just saying 'Wake up'. That was in the days after he hit me, after things went kind of sour.
A bedspring creaks up the hallway. Mom gently opens the front door to the reporter Lally owes money to. 'Afternoon, ma'am, is Eelio Lemeda here?'
'Lally? Well, he's here, but he's indisposed right now - can I tell him who called?'
'I'll wait, if you don't mind.'
'Well he shouldn't be much longer.'
The toilet flushes deep in the house. The bathroom door bangs, and Lally stomps9 down the hall. 'Vanessa, have you seen my therapy bag?'
'No, Lalito - anyway, I think you're all out of your gin-sling things.'
Fucken Vanessa? I search her face for clues. One thing you notice is her cheeks are all proud and peachy, like when she eats ice-cream in important company. Her eyelashes flutter double-time.
'Vanessa?' says Leona.
Mom blushes. 'Well I'll explain just now.'
She hides another final notice from the power company behind the cookie jar, then goes to fuss over Lally, who only has his robe on, you can just about see his cock flapping all over the place. If you had a fucken electron microscope you could just about see it. He strides into the kitchen with this smile full of teeth, and grazes a hand to Leona's butt11 as he passes. She gives a wiggle.
'Lally,' says Mom, 'there's someone at the front door for you.'
'For me?' His smile stiffens13. Joy wells up in my heart. As he turns to the door, I tackle Mom into the corner of the kitchen.
'Ma, go check Lally's visitor - fast! Go on now!'
'Well Vernon, what on earth's gotten into you? That's Lally's private business.'
'No it ain't, Ma, quick - it's real important.'
'Oh, Vernon - cope for God's sake.' She flashes her creamiest-pie smile as George and Betty clack into the kitchen, in the middle of one of their typical conversations.
'Honey, no way,' says George, 'just being a shareholder14 doesn't mean he has to buy that whole ridiculous SWAT thing of Vaine's. Can you imagine? She can't even keep her damn flab under control, let alone a team of gunmen!'
'I know, I know.'
I try to shunt my ole lady up to the front door, to witness Lally's shame, but her skin-tight pants don't make her any lighter15; she won't budge16 at all.
Lally opens the door to the man. 'Don't tell me - you're on a recovery mission.'
'Yeah, if you can spare it,' says the guy.
'Here you go, fifty dollars - and thanks.'
Now Mom grabs me by the shoulders - fucken me, no less - and spins me into the corner. 'Vernon, don't tell your nana, but I had to raid the lawnmowing fund to help Lally. His camera equipment wiped the code from his Visa card. I'll put it back as soon as my loan is approved.'
'Ma, I needed that money …'
'Well Vernon Gregory, you know that's Nana's lawnmowing account, and it's supposed to be earning interest for your college fund.'
'Yeah, like you get a whole pile of interest off fifty dollars.'
'Well I know it's not much, but it's all I have - just a mother on my own.'
Lally finishes with the reporter, but he doesn't come inside. Does he fuck. Instead he stands on the porch and hollers: 'Park in the driveway, Preacher - the girls won't be leaving for a while.' He leaves the front door open, and swaggers into the kitchen, passing me by without a glance.
'Lally, I forgot to mention,' says Mom, 'a lady called for you, from the network I think.'
'A lady?' Lally's hand twitches17 over his crotch.
'Uh-huh, she sounded very senior - she'll call back later.'
'She didn't leave a name?'
'Well she said it was your office - I told her to call back.'
One of Lally's eyes snaps to me. A quivery eye. Then he grabs Mom around the belly19 and says, 'Thanks, Vanessa - you're indispensable.'
'Van-essa?' say the ladies.
Mom swells20. 'Well, I can't tell you much now - can I, Lalito?'
'Suffice to say,' says Lally, 'the network was impressed with her appearance the other day. No promises, but we could be seeing a lot more of her - when the right strategies are in place.'
'I'll always be the same old Doris to you girls, though, you know I won't change a bit, deep down.'
Check Leona. Her mouth flaps empty of words for a moment, then she goes, 'Wow, it's weird21 because, did I tell you guys my new dialogue coach is sending my reel to the networks? Right after I get back from Hawaii - God, that's so weird, isn't it …?'
Mom just snuggles back into Lally's arms. For once in her life she don't give a weasel's shit about flabby ole fake-ass12 Leona.
'Vanessa Le Bourget,' Lally says into my ole gal's ear. 'Boor-jay,' he croons, like the cartoon skunk22 off TV, the one that always tries to fuck the cat. Mom just about shits on the floor when she hears it. Leona nearly bursts out fucken bawling24. Lally's on a roll. I just let him roll. 'Tch, I can't wait to share you with the crew back in New York, you'll just love those guys.'
'Well don't be impatient, Lalito, everything has its time. Meanwhile you'll have everything you need, even though it's just lil' ole me, in this itty-bitty town.'
'You can say itty again - damn hole doesn't even have a sushi bar!'
'Not like Nacogdoches,' I say.
'Nacog-doches?' says Betty. Lally shoots me the devil's eye.
'Bwanas tardies,' booms the pastor25, stepping through the door like he's a fucken Meskin all of a sudden. Bwanas tardies my fucken ass.
'C'mon in, Preacher,' says Lally. 'Can I fix you a loosener?' Lally's eye doesn't scan my way anymore. His eye has a new scanning pattern.
'Thanks, but no,' says Gibbons, 'I have to get that refrigerator moved into the media center - it's a mighty26 fine donation, I can't thank y'all enough.'
'Vernon, perhaps you'll explain to the pastor why you abandoned his charity stall today,' says Lally. Tension turns the air in the room to crystals.
'I got a stomach ache.'
'Surely,' he says, 'a person bailed28 for murder would do better to …'
'I'm not even on bail27 for murder, I'm a goddam accessory to Jesus Navarro's murders - fuck!'
Lally leans in like a whip and smacks29 the back of my head. 'Control yourself!'
I fill with acid blood. Mom starts to bawl23 in the corner, making it as difficult as possible for the ladies to maneuver30 her to the sofa.
'Such aggression31 in that boy,' says George. 'He was bound to fetch trouble, with so much aggression.'
'I know, I know - just like that, ehm - other boy …'
A dizzy feeling comes over me as I hit the ring-end of my fucken tether. I pull Lally's business card out of my pocket, and hold it up in the air. 'Everybody - I called Yoo-lalio's office today, and guess who answered? His blind momma, who just had her house emptied by the finance company on account of his van repayments32.' Lally's eyes turn to coal. 'Now she's facing a lawsuit33 over the camcorder he stole. Did you know he's actually a TV repairman, who works out of his momma's bedroom in Nacogdoches?'
'Oh please,' says Lally. He squeezes his balls but forgets to let go.
I glance over the bar. The ladies are way perked34 up. Land of Daytime Milk and Honey for them. I pose dramatically, hog-anger makes me do it. 'You think I lie? I guarantee his mother's gonna call here just now, hunting his ass. I guarantee it. Just ask her the story.' A smile comes to my face, know why? Because Lally's turning white. Everybody stares at him as he leans into the corner, wiping his face with his hand.
'Tch, that's preposterous35. The evil lies coming from this child's mouth.' He takes a heavy breath, then turns and spreads his arms to the ladies. 'Hands up who ever heard of a features reporter moonlighting as a repairman?' Everybody shakes their heads. 'And why might that be?'
'Well, because - there's more money in reporting?' sniffs36 Mom. 'He wouldn't need to repair TVs, with all that extra money?
'I rest my case.'
'Wait up,' I say, 'I didn't say he moonlighted as anything - he's just a repairman with a whole pile of trouble left back in Nacogdoches. Look at his card, go on.'
'Ladies,' says Lally, 'this is ridiculous. Do you know how many Ledesma Gutierrezes there are in this country? And have you ever seen me repair a TV?'
'No,' they say.
'Have you ever seen me on TV, presenting a feature report?'
'Well sure,' they say, motioning the pastor to join in. 'We were in it with you!'
'Thank you,' says Lally. He turns to stare at me. 'And now, in light of everything we've just heard, and, frankly37, for our own protection - I'm calling the police.'
'Oh no, Lally, please,' says Mom.
'Sorry, Vanessa - I'm afraid it's my duty. The boy needs urgent help.'
Then, just as my world starts to slip through my fingers, Fate plays a humdinger. The phone rings. Mom gasps38 to a halt, mid-fucken-sob39. Everybody freezes.
'I'll get that,' says Lally.
'I don't think so,' I say, diving for the phone. 'Mom, come take this call.'
My ole lady hunches40 off the sofa, all shiny around the nose and eyes, and does her finest victimmy shuffle41 to the phone table. She looks around at everybody, especially Lally, before picking up the phone. A pleading kind of look she gives Lally, real Kicked Dog. Then her voice smoothens like cream. 'Hello? Mr Ledesma, well sure - may I say who's calling?' She hands the phone to Lally. 'It's CNN.'
I grab it back. 'Mrs Ledesma?'
'Vernon!' snaps Mom.
'Remember me? From Martirio …?'
'Who is this?' asks the young New Yorker on the phone. Lally snatches the receiver and turns to the wall.
'Renee? Sorry about that - things are a little crazy down here. I got the series? fan-tastic!' He raises a thumb to the ladies. 'Conditional42 on what? Not a challenge, we still have the firearm piece, the suspect, and the townsfolk coming to terms with their grief. It can spin-off in a thousand directions.'
'Well you know,' whispers Mom to the ladies, 'I couldn't decide between Vanessa and Rebecca . . .'
'I was coping with Doris,' grunts43 George.
Lally finishes the call. He dangles44 the receiver over the cradle, taking a moment to gaze at everybody. The ladies stare into his eyes, Pastor Gibbons toys in his pocket. Then Lally drops the handset, 'Crack', cups his balls through his robe, and strolls to the middle of the room. 'Before we open the champagne45, I guess we have a rather more - human challenge to share.' His eyes snap to me. 'Pretty outlandish behavior we saw there, Vernon. Damn scary, actually, in light of everything.'
'Fuck you to hell,' I say.
'Vernon Gregory!' snaps Mom.
Lally pushes a little spit around his mouth. 'Simple compassion46 dictates47 that it's time to turn this boy over to someone who can help. If we cling when he needs professional care, we may only damage his chances of recovery.'
'You're the one who needs care,' I say. 'Lalo.'
'You are under a psychiatric order, after all.' He pauses to chuckle48, to reminisce. 'How on earth you concocted49 that story - the crew back in the Apple will just love that.' He checks his watch. 'Come to think of it, they're probably down at Bunty's right now.'
Mom hisses a footnote to the ladies. 'They have this bar called Bunty's, you probably heard of it - Bunty's?'
'Or at the Velvet50 Mode, for melon slammers,' says Lally. 'I might have to give them a call. Right after I contact the sheriff.'
'Well Lally, please,' says Mom. 'Can't we just wait till morning, I mean, he had a stomach ache - he does have this, er - condition …'
The phone rings. Everybody's face lights up, as if more big deals will trickle51 down the line. But Lally tightens52. This is where the horse would stop doing math on stage. I reach for the handset. He beats me to it.
'Le Bourget residence?' He tries to flash a good ole boy's grin to the ladies, but a quiver beats him to it. 'I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number.' His breathing quickens.
I dive around his legs and hit the speaker button. Mrs Ledesma's voice wails53 out.
'Lalo, oh my God, Lalo? I ran out of groceries, Lalo, please …'
Lally's lips dance uncontrollably, his eyes flash across the room. 'Oh - oh it's you,' he trembles.
'How could you leave me so long,' cries the lady. 'Es que no queda nada Eulalio, hasta mi cama se lo ban llevado …'
'Tell us in English!' I yell toward the phone. Lally's foot whips off the floor, dislodging me backwards54 onto the rug. He switches off the speaker.
'Oh you poor souls,' he says into the phone. 'I left strict instructions with the network to keep up my charity visits while I was away …' I go for the speaker button again, but he keeps me at bay with his leg. 'Yes, I know, sweetheart - but mental illness can be cured, that's why I contribute, that's why I share myself with your cause - you and all the other beautiful ladies at the home …'
I reach the far side of the phone table on my belly, but Lally quickly says goodbye, and slams down the phone. It rings again. He rips the cable from the wall. All breathing in the room gets canceled, along with platelet aggregation55 and whatever else your body does for kicks.
Lally turns to face everybody. 'I guess I have - something to share.' I squint56 through a waterline of smoke, to the dark of the sofa where the ladies sit, riveted57. Their knees stick tight together. 'Some time ago, I decided58 to share my resources with the less fortunate.'
'Amen,' says the pastor softly.
Lally's face falls. 'I surprised myself - I'd been so ambitious, so wrapped up in Me. Then I became involved with real people - real problems.' He pauses to dab59 a ringer at the corner of his eye. 'The voice you just heard is one of my ladies - one of my Sunshine Souls.'
'Wow, she sounded so together,' says Leona.
'Shhh, Loni, God,' says George.
'Tragic60, isn't it?' says Lally. 'Confined through no fault of her own. They all are.'
'Bull-shit,' I say.
'Vernon Gregory, that's enough,' says Mom.
'Were you - supporting them?' asks George.
Lally sighs. 'Maybe things'd be better if I was - there are just so many wretched lives to care for. And I have so little to give …'
'No, son,' scalds the pastor, 'you're giving the greatest gift of all - Christian61 love.'
Lally shrugs62 helplessly. 'If you see me a little short of cash - you now know why. I just feel so guilty having anything at all.' His eyes crawl over the sofa, snuggling into the ladies' pouts64, sliding down their weeping lashes10, before collapsing65 on the floor. He shakes his head. 'I guess the real tragedy is - they now know where I'm staying.'
It takes a full second for Spooked Deer to take hold of Mom. She twitches. 'Well - why is that tragic?'
He flicks66 a glossy67 eye at me, sighs. 'The home's strictest rule is non-disclosure of carers' identities. If they found out about this, I could be prevented from giving in future. I don't know if I could survive a month without visiting my special girls. It means - I'll have to move along.'
There's a stunned68 silence. Then my ole lady implodes69. 'Well God, Lally, no, I mean - no, God …'
'I'm sorry, Doris. This is bigger than the two of us.'
'But we can disconnect the phone, change the number … Lalito? You can't walk out after this whole month of bliss70.'
'Week of bliss,' corrects Lally. 'I'm sorry. Maybe if Vernon hadn't called the home, maybe if he didn't harbor such a grudge71 - but no. Things'll only get more challenging after I call the sheriff.'
'Shoot,' says George, 'I'd call him myself if he wasn't tied up at the Barn meeting.'
Trickles72 then torrents73 of blood and vein74 soak through the bottom of Mom's legs, her brownest organs sweat through her pores. In the end just these pleading eyes poke75 up, the eyes of a well-kicked dog. Squished Kitten even.
Leona watches her quiver become a sob, then turns to Lally. 'There's space at my place.'
'My God,' he says. 'The pure charity of this town …'
Mom's eyes pop. 'Well, but, but, the home might find you there, as well - that woman, she could just as easy find you at Leona's as here …'
'I'm unlisted,' says Leona with a shrug63. 'I have call-screening and closed-circuit security.'
Mom's eyes fall to the tan-line where her wedding ring once sat. 'Well but Vernon could just as easily give that number to the patients, you saw his behavior - couldn't you, Vernon, just give Leona's number to the home …?'
'Ma, the guy's a goddam psycho, I swear to God.'
'Well see? He could call them right now, see his attitude? I think Lally and I should take a room at the Seldome for a while … Lalito? And do all those other things you want to do, around town …?'
'Tch, the Seldome's full.'
'Well but they'd always find space for me, I mean, I was married at the Seldome.'
Leona picks her bag off the sofa and fishes in it for her keys. 'Offer's open.'
My ole lady's already halfway76 across the room. 'What's the Seldome's number?'
Lally reaches out to stop her. 'Doris - that's not all.' He fumbles77 in his shirt pocket and pulls out two crumpled78 joints79. 'Vernon didn't do such a good job hiding these.'
'Cigarettes?' asks Mom.
'Illegal drugs. You'll understand now why I can't be associated with the boy.' He throws the spliffs scornfully onto the coffee table, leaning past me to whisper, 'Thanks for the story.'
In the background you hear Leona's car keys drop into George's lap. 'I guess I'll ride with Lally. Take the Eldorado when you're ready - it'll need some gas.'
'We have a spare room,' says Betty. 'We haven't used Myron's studio since he died.'
Lally and Leona clack out through the screen into a dirty afternoon. A promise of rain on dust puffs80 through the door behind them. To Mom I know it smells of their sex.
'I'll be back for my stuff,' calls Lally. Mom's skin has all melted together. Her face drips down her arms onto her lap.
I run a step after him. 'How'd you know it said Gutierrez on the card, motherfucker? How'd you know it said Ledesma Gutierrez, when you didn't even look at the card?' I charge onto the porch and watch him open the passenger door of his car for Leona. Then you see the Lechugas' drapes twitch18 open a crack. Leona flaps a little wave towards it, from behind her back. The drapes close.
I'm a kid whose best friend took a gun into his mouth and blew off his hair, whose classmates are dead, who's being blamed for it all, who just broke his mama's heart - and as I drag myself inside under the weight of these slabs81 of moldy82 truth, into my dark, brown ole life - another learning flutters down to perch83 on top. A learning like a joke, that kicks the last breath from my system. The Lechugas' drapes. It's how Mom's so-called friends coordinate84 their uncannily timed assaults on my home. They still have a hotline to Nancie Lechuga's.
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